DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 May 1927, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

BIG PROPERTY DEAL. (by telegraph—press association.) v WELLINGTON, May 21. One of the largest deals yet recorded in city property was completed to-day, when Bond Street Limited acquired nearly all the properties in Old Custom Street and Parish Street. It is the intention of the company, with the co-operation of the City Council, which will form wide streets and footpaths, to convert the area into a new and fashionable shopping centre. The purchase consists of ten freehold properties. The price, it is understood, is in the vicinity of a quarter of a million. Many old landmarks of the early days of Wellington will soon be things of the past. FIRE AT WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, May 21. A fire early this morning completely destroyed a house in Arlington Street occupied by Mr H. A. Kiernan, a Harbour Board employee, and severely damaged a boarding house owned and occupied by Mr Joseph Devlin, rendering it worthless. The insurances wore £IOOO on the building and £260 on the contents in the Guardian Office. The dwelling was owned by Mary McWilliams, and the insurance was not available, but Kiernan had his effects covered for £4OO. A MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.

AUCKLAND, May 21. The estate of David Dingwall, previously stated to be over £IOO,OOO, has now been lodged for probate at £245,000. After providing a life interest for an aged sister, practically the whole of the estate goes to founding a Dingwall Presbyterian Orphanage. REFORM GOVERNMENT CRITICISED. DARGAVILLE, May 21. Mr J. A. Lee, a Labour member of Parliament, addressed a crowded meeting last night, the Mayor presiding. Mr Lee replied to Mr Coates’s presessional speech,_ and condemned the Government, which he blamed for much of the present-day ills. He declared that the Government shorn 1 d have stood behind the Dairy Control Board instead of playing into the hands of Toolev Street. He defended pricefixing, and said the upward tendency of dairy produce prices justified the establishment of the board. A vote of thanks was passed to the speaker, and a motion expressing dissatisfaction with the Reform Government was declared carried, but a large number of the audience refrained from voting. THEFTS IN THE MANAWATU. LEVIN, May 21. A raid by motor-car thieves appears to have been made up the coast last night. A car stolen, from F. R. Holton’s garage at Paekakariki during the night was subsequently found l'an over the wharf at Foxton into the Manawatu; River. Ellis’s baker shop was entered at Paekakariki, the Ohau Post Office was broken into and a number of letters! stolen. A small store near Levin was a\so entered, but little was stolen 1 .

Another car is missing from Foxton, and it is presumed the raiders continued their journey in that. Letters from the Ohau) Post Office were found in the car at Foxton.